{Completed} Jeno's mother decides to rent out one of the spare rooms in the house in attempt to make some extra money. At first Jeno wasn't a fan of the idea but he soon changes his mind when he gets to know the cute and innocent Chinese student tha...
Jeno wouldn't exactly say him and Renjun were friends now, they still had the odd argument here and there and could still go days without talking to one another, but they seemed to be civil with each other when it mattered most. That was usually when Jaemin or Jeno's mother was around. Renjun had gotten himself a job at a nearby café on weekends so Jeno didn't see him much anyway since he left early and came home pretty late. Dinners had gone back to being just him and his mother and he loved it.
"Jeno stop being a bitch and put something good on" Jaemin whines from the other side of the couch, kicking his feet into Jeno's side like a child throwing a tantrum. Jaemin and Donghyuck had come round for a little while since Jeno's mother was out on a second date. Donghyuck was too busy arguing with Mark on the phone to even care about what was on the TV, but Jaemin was getting bored.
"Fine, put what you want on" Jeno groans and throws the remote at Jaemin's head but luckily he dogged out of the way. "But don't put anything lame on, I know how you are when it comes to movies, I'm not sitting through mean girls again".
Jaemin pulls a face and repeats Jeno's words in a mocking tone as he scrolls through the Netflix recommendations. After around ten minutes of finding some definite 'no's' and some 'maybes' and around two 'not in the moods' Jaemin finally settled on the Grinch since he was feeling festive.
Jeno doesn't pay much attention to the movie and ended up playing some random game on his phone as he listens to Donghyuck yell for Jaemin to shut up singing 'where are you Christmas?'. At this point Jaemin had also lost interest in the movie and decided that winding up Hyuck was far more entertaining.
"I said shut up!" Donghyuck yells as he slams his phone down beside him and grabs a cushion, hitting Jaemin around the head. Jeno sat back and enjoyed the argument despite Jaemin's cries for help. It wasn't long until both boys were rolling around on the carpet, pulling at each other's hair or trying to suffocate one another with pillows.
The sound of the front door opening causes all three of them to freeze and quickly jump apart. They knew if Jeno's mother caught them fighting she would make them sit through another friend therapy session which was the last thing they wanted. Jaemin jumps back into his spot and rests his head on Jeno's shoulder, pretending to be asleep whereas Donghyuck quickly sorted his hair out and picked his phone back up, typing away at the screen.
"Wow you're all very quiet" a voice says which causes Jaemin to jump up and race into the hallway.
"Injunnie!" He yells and practically tackles the blonde into a hug "you smell like caramel" Jaemin points out, sniffing the shorter boy once more.
"That's because I've been serving caramel lattes to basic bitches for six hours" Renjun mutters as he pulls his jacket off and hangs it up. He makes a move for the stairs but Jaemin stops him.
"Are you not going to eat anything?" Jaemin asks as he watches Renjun shrug. Jeno scoffs a little knowing that his best friend always cares far too much. If Renjun was hungry he would get himself something to eat. He wasn't a child he was nineteen for crying out loud.
Renjun smiles a little awkwardly "I'm not really hungry, I might just get something later" he nods glancing over at Jeno briefly before running up the stairs to his room.
Jaemin wanders back into the room with a slight pout on his face as he drops himself back down beside Jeno. "Do you think Renjun has an eating disorder?"
Jeno practically choked on air "trust me hun he eats, I'm forced to eat dinner with him nearly every night. You overthink too much, all he said was that he wasn't hungry" he pushes the younger a little and Jaemin falls onto his side.
They watch the end of the movie in silence before Donghyuck stands up and declares he's going to Mark's place. "Ooooooh Hyuck's gonna get some dick" Jaemin teases only for the red headed boy to storm over and yank his hair.
They hear the door slam and Jaemin lazily looks over at Jeno and smiles. "I might head home, say goodnight to Renjun for me". Jeno scoffs at this but waves towards the younger as he also left.
Jeno sighs and turns the TV off before storming up the stairs. Why was it when Renjun showed up everyone seemed to leave? Speaking of Renjun, Jeno had been thinking about him a lot lately. Usually it was when he was about to go to sleep but then small bits and pieces of the party pop back into his head and he suddenly feels an urge to just do it all over again. He knows he had promised not to tease Renjun anymore but to be fair he had kept his promise for a week which was much longer than Jeno thought he could have.
Thinking something up in his mind Jeno wanders towards the guest room and pushes the door open. Renjun sat on his bed, laptop open and the bright screen illuminating his face. He looked completely unbothered by the fact Jeno had just barged in like he did. Honestly he was use to it now.
Jeno seems to wander around the room a little and Renjun watches from the corner of his eyes although tries to keep his focus solely on his laptop screen. He wanders over to the side of the bed and drops himself down beside Renjun which causes the laptop to slide a little but luckily Renjun caught it.
The blonde notices Jeno looking down at the side of the bed and he raises a brow as he watches. "Where is it?" Jeno asks and looks back over at Renjun who tries to hide to smug smile.
"Where's what?" He asks acting like he had no idea what Jeno was talking about. It was obvious he was referring to the box that had been under the bed before.
"The box". It was very obvious what he was referring to and he knew Renjun was well aware of it. It was irritating him how Renjun was still focusing only on his laptop and not even batting an eyelash in Jeno's direction.
"Oh I hid it" he shrugs and Jeno could see he was trying to hide the small smile that had appear on his lips. Was it because Jeno was asking about it?
"Seriously?" Jeno scoffs and tilts his head to the side "why'd you hide it? Is it because of me?" Instantly Renjun nods his head and Jeno jumps to his feet, wandering around the room once again. "I guarantee I could find it".
Renjun sighs and finally drags his eyes away from his laptop screen to look over at Jeno "I honestly don't care, I'll get it for you myself if you want" he mutters "actually, you can keep it, you'll probably find more use out of it than me anyway. Don't worry I haven't used anything in there" he climbs off his bed and opens up the closet, grabbing the box and shoving it into Jeno's chest. "Now get out"
"Wait" Jeno says causing Renjun to roll his eyes but reluctantly look up at him "you haven't used them? Then why the hell do you have them?"
Of course Renjun could have told the truth and said that his friends had given him it as a silly gift, but being the bipolar weirdo he is he only shrugs and runs one of his fingers over the lid of the box. "I guess I just never had the time" he lies, shrugging and shuffling back over to the bed, throwing himself onto it and grabbing his laptop before it could fall.
Jeno didn't say anything right away but he slams Renjun's laptop shut and drops the box on top of it. "You've got time now..."
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I know it's wrong to assume this is SM's fault but I gotta blame someone. Imma march into that place and throw some fists. How the hecking hell did they not look after my bby Hyuckie properly? ｡ﾟ( ﾟஇ‸இﾟ)ﾟ｡
